sinéad's lifestream

1. When my dog Ben nudges my hand with his head, looking for rubs and attention.
2. Making scrambled egg on Sundays for Jen.
3. Music that makes me feel.
4. Words that make me think.
5. Reading the entire Sunday Times out in the backgarden.
6. Dinner conversations with my family.
7. Writing something I’m proud of.
8. Seeing how in love my parents still are with each other.
9. Taking photos and feeling connected to them.
10. Solving a problem for someone.

Inspired by Peter

Have a listen to the band here and there are more photos on my Flickr page.

Brown Thomas, Dublin, is over-run with these “limited edition” Patricia Field created Diet Coke bottles, their recommended retail price is €10, but are currently going for €5. Perhaps BT should have put these in refrigeration to help sales? Overpriced, but visually pleasing nonetheless.

Whilst doing a late Spring clean this evening I decided to finally organise my overflowing bookshelf – which earlier today consisted of 3 squashed and disheveled shelves of books, 1 shelf of music/games and 1 shelf of DVDS. So, I put all my music/games in storage, which has given me a 4th shelf for my books to finally breath. During this reorganisation, I made a pile out of the books that I’ve not had the chance to read yet (or started reading and put aside).

Since the start of the year I’ve been reading nothing but journal articles and books for college, and since college ended term I’ve been indulging in a lot of fiction (Jeff Lindsay and Kathy Reichs in particular – don’t read into that too much!) but every single time I’ve looked at these books on my shelf individually, I’ve wanted (very much!) to start reading them, I just lack that extra motivation.

To motivate myself to read them all – I’ve set them aside on one half of my new 4th shelf (which just happens to be at eye level), and I plan on making sure that I get through all of them by the end of the Summer. They won’t be joining their comrades until they are read, so it’ll be like a Book Inbox, currently 11 unread books, and since there is nothing worse than a full inbox, I’m hoping these will be read quite soon.

What’s in your Book Inbox?

I’ve always loved the art deco front of the old Strand Cinema and I’m glad they kept it for this apartment redevelopment. Though the apartments themselves are quite pricey and unfortunately are situated in a rather iffy area on the North Strand Road and close to the East Wall too. If they were closer to Fairview they might be worth the €300,000 each (edit: not 100% sure about this price). A real pity too, because the building itself is gorgeous and the redevelopment is lovely – complete with art deco style foyer with old movie posters.